Management Leadership and Its Development

Global development of digital economy in the twenty-first century leads to changes in understanding leadership phenomenon as a socio-psychological factor that can unite groups of people for reaching certain objectives and fulfilling tasks. Leadership phenomenon as a management technique is a research topic of current interest. In conditions of digital economy, an ability to create the systems of leadership internals in management contributes to growth in the frame of effective running of a socioeconomic system on the whole. In our opinion, the most importance should be attributed to the issues of uniting a group of people for achieving the objectives in times of uncertainty that supposes a current and unpredictable change of external environment. Our paper studies individual and psychological characteristics of the leadership development, but also tackles the group context of different approaches, such as socio-psychological, philosophic, and behavioral, situational. Our interest and focus in these issues are logical as far as management of the leadership has always been valued, especially nowadays when the demand among organizations is focused on the issues related to transferring leadership practices into company’s brand. Thence, our paper is devoted to processes of developing different types of leaders: a manager, a leader, or a managing leader.